[Adium-devl] Adium 1.0 Screenshots taker(s)?

[Christopher Forsythe]

On Jan 27, 2007, at 12:06 PM, David Clark wrote:

> <delurks>
>
> I have to chip in a little about the screenshots. Currently on the
> screenshots page, it's virutally impossible to tell one screenshot
> thumbnail from another, and none of them particularly catch the eye.
> I would suggest:
>
> - More variety of colors and sizes (I have a nice dark-blue with
> translucency and bright status colors setup which I would gladly take
> a shot of). While the defaults are nice (and should be shown), Adium
> can really shine with an Xtra or two.

People have discovered these things without the screenshots having  
them. We had a huge mass of screenshots in what, the .5x days? I  
don't know that this was any better or not.

> - Trim to show only one or two items at a time, so that the
> thumbnails don't look like a tiny version of a full screenshot
>

I don't think I'm parsing this one right, can you restate it?

> - In that vein, some artsy extreme-closeups, for example, zoom on
> status gems and message window tabs, the corner of a nice contact
> list, maybe a user icon in a message view. Those really catch the eye.

Would a video do the same thing?

> - As a possible way to KEEP full-screen screenshots yet make
> thumbnails more interesting, don't make the thumbnail a scaled-down
> version of the screenshot. Just zoom in on a key part (i.e. the
> status gems) and caption the thumbnail something like "message  
> window".


So like this, sorta?

http://saltatory.com/familyabout.html



Chris